What are the concepts and characteristics of intellectual property?
Intellectual property rights refer to people's rights to intellectual creation and industrial and commercial signs according to law, including copyright, patent right, trademark right and trade secret right, new plant variety right, integrated circuit layout design right, geographical indication right and other intellectual property rights.
Intellectual property, as a civil right legally recognized by the owner of intellectual products, has the following characteristics:
1. The object of rights is an intangible property. The object of intellectual property is not tangible, but abstract things such as knowledge and information.
2. Rights are regional. The regionality of intellectual property rights means that intellectual property rights recognized and protected according to the laws of a country can only have legal effect in that country, but not have extraterritorial effect. To obtain the extraterritorial effect of intellectual property rights, we only need to rely on international conventions or bilateral agreements on copyright; Patent rights and trademark rights must be confirmed by administrative organs of other countries before they have legal effect.
3. Rights are temporary. Intellectual property rights have a certain period of validity and cannot be valid forever. Intellectual property rights are protected within the validity period stipulated by law. After the statutory time limit, the relevant intellectual achievements will no longer be protected objects, but become the common wealth of society for people to use freely.